Fiscal Dates

Columbus Day 2024

United States · Monday, October 14, 2024 · FM1, Q1 of FY2025

Mon
Weekday 2024
FM1
Fiscal Month
Q1
Fiscal Quarter
351d
To FY2025 Year-End
Country
United States
Calendar date 2024
2024-10-14 (Monday)
Fiscal year
FY2025 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM1 of 12 · Quarter Q1 · printable monthly template
Source
OPM federal holidays

About Columbus Day

Second Monday in October, federal holiday. Some states observe Indigenous Peoples' Day on the same date instead.

This page is the 2024-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the United States fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Columbus Day page.

2024 weekday and observance

In 2024, Columbus Day falls on Monday, October 14. Falling on a Monday, this holiday compresses the work week to four days and pushes any month-end activity that would normally close on Monday into the following day. Plan for late-Tuesday banking value dates.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Monday, October 14, 2024. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.

Where it lands in FY2025

For organisations on the United States fiscal calendar, Columbus Day 2024 sits in fiscal month 1 (FM1), inside quarter Q1 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 351 days remaining until fiscal year-end on September 30, 2025. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.

For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Columbus Day 2023 · Columbus Day 2025 · Columbus Day 2026

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Columbus Day 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM1 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.

If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2024 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.

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